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ppmtopict - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file
ppmtopict
[ppmfile]
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a Macintosh
PICT file as output.
The generated file is only the data fork of a picture.
You will need a program such as mcvert to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex
file that contains the necessary information to identify the file as a
PICT file to MacOS.
Even though PICT supports 2 and 4 bits per pixel, ppmtopict
always generates an 8 bits per pixel file.
The picture size field is
only correct if the output is to a file since writing into this field requires
seeking backwards on a file. However the PICT documentation seems to suggest
that this field is not critical anyway since it is only the lower 16 bits
of the picture size.
picttoppm(1)
, ppm(5)
, mcvert(1)
Copyright
(C) 1990 by Ken Yap <ken@cs.rocester.edu>.
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